Lucky pilot and passenger.

http://q13fox.com/2017/05/02/s...eo-injuries-unknown/

MUKILTEO, Wash. -- A small plane crashed on Harbour Pointe Boulevard SW east of Cyrus Way Tuesday afternoon, damaging several vehicles but causing no serious injuries, police said.

The dramatic dash-cam video above was taken by Guanting Li.

Investigators said the pilot of the Piper aircraft, a man from Oregon, took off from Everett's Paine Field just before 3:30 p.m and then began losing engine power. He told investigators he was losing too much altitude to return so he attempted to land on Harbour Point Boulevard because it was clear. The plane, however, clipped power lines and then hit a street light, rupturing a fuel cell.

No one was seriously injured, and the pilot and his passenger walked away from the accident.

Holy shit! Hard to believe they walked away from that.

Minus the power lines, street sign and fireball, that looked just like my crash landing (3 years ago this Saturday).

Me and my buddy walked away as well. The plane was a total loss.

Whoa... flashback

#2 Rule of Rotary Wing (#1 being Rotor RPMs Are Everything) Wires will kill you dead and are everywhere.

Those are some lucky folks, and kudos to the pilot for realizing a return to airport wasn't going to happen and making the best of the situation.

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Originally posted by Otto Pilot:
#2 Rule of Rotary Wing (#1 being Rotor RPMs Are Everything) Wires will kill you dead and are everywhere.

Those are some lucky folks, and kudos to the pilot for realizing a return to airport wasn't going to happen and making the best of the situation.

My dad and my ex's dad were both private pilots.

At different time they each commented to me "any landing you can walk away from is a good landing."

A Cherokee Six >> I used to fly one of these off a 1,400' grass strip on Shelter Island NY - they are hell for stout! Apologies for the large image but I don't know how to shrink it.

I always love all the people in cars who immediately begin bugging out as soon as something happens in front of them.

There could be someone on fire in front of them needing help and they are turning their ass around and getting out of there because that pizza is getting cold.

Wow. Very lucky indeed!
That may take a bit more than duct tape and JB weld to fix.

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Originally posted by PASig:
I always love all the people in cars who immediately begin bugging out as soon as something happens in front of them.

There could be someone on fire in front of them needing help and they are turning their ass around and getting out of there because that pizza is getting cold.

Not everybody is a first responder.

There are likely soccer moms there, maybe even with kids in the car. I don't expect the average housewife (or the average pajama boy, for that matter) to go bravely charging into the flames. Others in that car will likely be elderly, infirm, or simply not capable of doing anything useful in such an emergency.

Others are likely conditioned to sit back and "let the professionals take care of it." The media, and much of the law enforcement community (not all of them, of course) repeat the usual line that they need to sit back and let somebody else rescue them (or others).

There is also a significant human condition involved, and it's not necessarily blatant self-interest. In the footage of the Boston Marathon bombing, for example, there were roughly three groups of people in evidence. One group ran in fear. One group ran towards the sound of the bombs to render assistance. The third group sat there in shock, paralyzed into inaction. Not everybody has the mental fortitude to 'get involved' in such an emergency. For those people, it is arguably better for them to simply get out of the way so that the real responders can get to the scene.

Wow he almost stalled it, he did a fantastic job of threading through the power lines.

Yeah, I saw the video the other day and thought the article incomplete. No one injured?

Whatever your beliefs, those folks have more work to do in this lifetime.

My old coworkers said they thought he was dead as soon as they saw the fireball. I'm glad the pilot made it out ok.

That happened not too far from where I live. Pretty amazing that everyone walked away unscathed.

About 10 miles from me as the crow flies, and my son does the 911 thing for the center that handled it. Nothing like a plane crash to make the shift exciting.

Glad and surprised no one was hurt. That can be a very busy area with lots of traffic. Much good karma raining down in addition to an aircraft and burning fuel...

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I always love all the people in cars who immediately begin bugging out as soon as something happens in front of them.

If you watch closely, you'll see several people running on foot towards the crash.

Sadly, a percentage of them likely stood around with their cell phones taking video. I'm going to assume that at least a few of them helped the victims.

He definitely hit at least one of the wires, but it looks like hitting the traffic light may have caused the most damage.

From the Aviator's dictionary:
Good landing--any landing you walk away from.

Great landing--any landing resulting in being able to use the aircraft again.

It appears this was only a good landing. In all seriousness, very glad the pilot & his passenger were able to walk away, and nobody on the ground was hurt. Money can fix the rest.

Great pilot skills, amazing they walked away.

Better to be lucky than good, this pilot said.

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Originally posted by PASig:
I always love all the people in cars who immediately begin bugging out as soon as something happens in front of them.

Regale us with your harrowing tales of wading into a life or death fray sometime.